Lorca Quotes

“Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.”

“But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.”

“Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.”

“The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.”

“In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.”

“A confused labyrinth of smoky starsentangles my hopes,which are nearly faded”

“Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death,but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit,nor in the air, nor in our lives,nor on these terraces of billowing smoke.The genuine pain that keeps everything awakeis a tiny, infinite burnon the innocent eyes of other systems.”

“A light which lives on what the flames devour,a grey landscape surrounding me with scorch,a crucifixion by a single wound,a sky and earth that darken by each hour,a sob of blood whose red ribbon adornsa lyre without a pulse, and oils the torch,a tide which stuns and strands me on the reef,a scorpion scrambling, stinging in my chest--this is the wreath of love, this bed of thornsis where I dream of you stealing my rest,haunting these sunken ribs cargoed with grief.I sought the peak of prudence, but I foundthe hemlock-brimming valley of your heart,and my own thirst for bitter truth an”

“Look at the longing, the anguish of a sad fossil world / that cannot find the accent of its first sob.”